Little Davon is Marion's first baby of 2013

Tuesday

Jan 1, 2013 at 7:40 PM

New Year's Day births tend to run in the McCullough family of Reddick.

By Rick AllenStaff writer

New Year's Day births tend to run in the McCullough family of Reddick.

According to matriarch Diana McCullough, there are two sets of twins and an uncle in her family all born on the first day of the year. And now there's Davon Johnson, born Tuesday when 2013 was but 95 minutes old — the first and, as of mid-afternoon, the only baby born New Year's Day at Munroe Regional Medical Center, which boasts the only maternity center in Marion County.

Davon, born 6 pounds, 9 ounces and 19.5 inches long at 1:35 a.m., makes the eighth grandchild for McCullough. "No more," she declared Tuesday afternoon. "I love them all, can't live without them, but no more."

Davon's mother, Candace McCullough, 27, was at church Monday evening when "I just started having contractions," she said. "So I dropped the two kids with me off and drove myself here. I was told by (an attendant) in the emergency room I had to move my car.

Little Davon, who slept through an interview and photographs Tuesday, has four older siblings; two of them, Dallas, 2, and Danay Washington, at 9 the oldest of the siblings, were with their mother and grandmother Tuesday at Munroe.

Danay said she helps her mother raise her younger sister and brothers. "I put their clothes away, help them turn on the TV, fix their cereal," she said.

"She's a big help," Candace agreed.

In the past two weeks, there have been more than 50 babies born at Munroe, said hospital spokesman Ryan Gerds. But as of Tuesday afternoon, there were no other pending births.